Under Contract

Just letting you know, we are actually, officially "under contract". It has actually been a few days (or a week even?) It is a duplex just two blocks from us, we offered on probably nine months ago. It has five bedrooms (one will be an office) and more square footage than we currently have. It is a "short sale" (an oxymoronic phrase if there ever was one!) We were actually about the third offer, so didn't really expect anything. (They consider the first the one they are first considering and us others were backup offers.) The people in first and us were both calling the selling agent every couple of weeks to find out that nothing was really happening. Finally, on March 9th-- a miserable day, Brian and I had both been up all night with the flu-- the agent called and said that the first place buyers had finally been "bank- approved" but that they had done something else with their money now and were no longer interested! So, since we had been calling, he figured he would see if we were still interested and begin the process with us. Just goes to prove, once again, that the squeaky wheel gets the oil. It is hard to say when moving day will be-- lots more to get through first and with short sales, they ignore any dates you try to give them, they just do there thing and when they get to each point is when they get to it! The bank that is selling it has been notorious for being slow too. Lucky for us, they just recently began using a new system that is bringing hope that things will "only" take two months. That's sounds perfect though. I hope it works out that we can move about the beginning of June. We'll see. I'll have to go get a picture to post, huh?